Madeleine McCann: Gerry McCann In Flat With Kidnapper
FROM Paul Reis in Portugal:
Madeleine: Was there really an intruder? Or did Madeleine wandered out of the apartment and was taken by somebody?
Sky News Video
Madeleine: Was There Really An Intruder?
Former Scotland Yard detective John O’Connor has been in Portugal trying to pick up clues. He believes Madeleine may have in fact wandered out of the apartment to a nearby supermarket from where she was taken and he thinks she is still close by.
The Scotsman
Gerry McCann ‘came close to Madeleine’s abductor’
JOHN BINGHAM
PA Chief Reporter in Praia da Luz
MADELEINE McCANN’s father believes he might have come within a few yards of his daughter’s abductor when he saw her for the last time, a friend said today. Gerry McCann has become convinced an intruder was already hiding inside the family’s holiday flat when he left his meal to go back and check on his children on the night of Madeleine’s disappearance (…)
The Telegraph
Madeleine McCann: Gerry certain he was in bedroom with kidnapper
By Caroline Gammell in Praia da Luz
Last Updated: 8:54pm BST 21/09/2007
Gerry McCann is convinced his daughter’s kidnapper was hiding behind a door in their holiday apartment as he checked on his sleeping children, according to a friend. The cardiologist saw all three of his offspring – Madeleine, and the twins Sean and Amelie – sleeping peacefully at just after 9pm on the night of her disappearance. But as he turned to leave the ground floor room, he noticed that a door which he thought he had closed earlier was slightly ajar. Agonisingly, he is now sure that standing behind this door was his four-year-old daughter’s abductor, waiting to steal her from her bed in the Praia da Luz (…)
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September 23rd, 2007 at 10:18 pm
So many people were coming and going at the holiday resort that it would be the height of stupidity/insanity to try to abduct a child with so much commotion. Nothing about this case makes any sense. Especially the part about the parents leaving three 2/3 year olds alone for 5 minutes let alone every night of the week. It’s such abnormal behavior that the only logical conclusion I can come to is that the parents were intentionally establishing a bizarre pattern.
September 23rd, 2007 at 6:31 pm
I’d like to know how the McCanns came to have access to all these ‘big names’, stars, ‘celebrities’, politicians, journalists, ex-journalists, money and a PR campaign, when the average parents of an abducted (or killed) child does not.
That’s what I’d *really* like to know.
If your child was abducted do you think you could call on all those resources? If it were my child, I couldn’t.
September 23rd, 2007 at 8:59 am
Of course, it would be a lot easier to abduct a small child (and not wake her siblings) if all the children were sedated.
September 23rd, 2007 at 12:49 am
Helen, I can think of a perfectly good reason why the abductor would not have struck at 8.40 pm but later on. Too early, too many people around. He was much more likely to have been seen taking Madeleine away around then.
An intruder would very seldom strike that early on in the evening. Typically, the “witching hour” for burglars is sometime between about 12 pm and 4.00 am, and more usually around 2 am. However that’s when the occupants are either at home or on holiday. In this case, the McCanns were away from the apartment but would be returning that same night. Thus the optimum time to commit the abduction was as late as possible before the couple returned.
If the abductor saw Gerry leave the apartment after what he would have known was one of Gerry’s checks, he knew that he had ample time to act. Since he evidently only needed 5 minutes in the event, it still looks to me that it all ties in exactly.
Thus 9.10 makes total sense.
September 22nd, 2007 at 5:27 pm
megz 2, Ian 4, Helen 10, I agree with you.
Martin 6: let them talk. The police got to find out what happened.
September 22nd, 2007 at 5:18 pm
The first official version of the story, thought by the police, was that the abductor entered the apartment through the window(which was not forced) and left through the door, shuting it behind himself.
After this story, there have been millions of new different stories told by the Mccanns and their group.The police complained they could not get a picture of what really happened. Suddenlly Gerry comes up with the version that he was in the apartment at the same time with the abductor.
1)How does he know it? Did the abductor had such a bad breath and smelling feet?-”Well, now I remember a terrible smell in the apartment…”
2) Why did he not come up with this story before? He is trying to cover up the statement of that lady, who saw the abductor carrying Maddie before Maddie was abducted.Gerry saw al three children asleep after the lady saw the man running with the child. Come on!
September 22nd, 2007 at 5:18 pm
I do not think that the abductor was already in apartment when Gerry checked at 9.10pm If the abductor had been watching the family as the parents believe, he would have seen the parents leaving at 8.40pm, and would have struck then. I doubt he would have hung around in apartment for 30 minutes, but would have got away as quickly as possible. On the other hand if he was not watching the apartment how could he be sure that the children were there and alone. I wish that the press would stop printing all this stuff as it will prevent the parents from having a fair trial if they are charged.
September 22nd, 2007 at 9:16 am
Most ‘abductions’ are done by the other parent, in custody fights.
The little girl taken from her bath was true abduction, poor thing used for what he wanted and abandoned, fortunately an alert family present in the house at the time.
September 22nd, 2007 at 9:14 am
Only a week before there was said to be a break in in the apartmen above the one they were occupying in the resort. It isn’t a stretch of the imagination to propose that their apartment was likewise targeted and the family watched by an intruder. Five minutes was plenty of time to do the deed when time is of the essence. To me the story rings entirely true and all the details add up. Why examine implausible theories when a perfectly plausiblre one is staring us in the face?
September 22nd, 2007 at 1:10 am
How agonizing that would be if true. How awful to realize after the fact what must have been. Just like their friend who saw a man carrying a child who didn’t stop him because she didn’t know yet Madeleine was gone. Don’t know why it’s hard for a lot of people to realize an abductor most likely did take her. Abductions of children happen a lot; they are easy targets and they can manipulate them, carry them away, and kill them easily to not have witnesses to their crime. It would be horrible to think back in time and realize you were seeing an abduction, but didn’t realize it at the time. So sad and tragic; always hope she might still be alive and be found. Doubtors of abduction should do some googling.
September 22nd, 2007 at 12:58 am
PR Team McCann works in overdrive. Why don’t they simply shut up?
September 21st, 2007 at 11:55 pm
Good Haevens, who is believing this story?I pray Gerry never told this.Made up by a news paper, I pray god.Otherwise people will believe him less and less.
Next story: “I had sex with the intruger and much later I realised it was the abductor” I get tired of this.
September 21st, 2007 at 11:52 pm
More spin, the idea here is to mention an abductor and try to make it seem real. Once again they are trying to divert attention. I’d have thought this expensive media expert would have realised that you cant keep changing stories - people going different directions than they first said, people saying differen things, seeing different things. If they werent blatently lying at first, they sure are now!
I dont know - any more than anyone other than the Tapas 9 does - but I suspect that they were all half cut, didnt check the kids (maybe didnt need to if they had sedated them) and are lying to save their careers.
I balk at actually saying they did anything to their own child but its not impossible.
September 21st, 2007 at 11:43 pm
I think a man could remove a small child from a room in less than 5 minutes. Especially if he had already scoped out the exits as he probably knew the habits of the McCann’s and their children. I am sure this family had been watched - probably for days and just waited for the right time!
September 21st, 2007 at 11:31 pm
yes well that is true. his theory is highly unlikely though as he said he left at 9.10pm and jane tanner said she saw someone carrying a child at 9.15pm so that gave the kidnapper 5 mins to grab a sleeping child and get her and himself out the window without making any noise. Very unlikely.
September 21st, 2007 at 10:40 pm
I thinkk that, had they been in the flat with their children, they would all still be here